General Inquiries and Support

Business Links and News

DCC social media connects you to up-to-date news and links for all things business as well as Chamber events and news. If you don’t follow us, you are missing out on local information for your local business.

The Shire of Denmark

The Shire of Denmark is also working to support Denmark’s many and varied businesses. They are available to provide support and help guide you through the various hurdles you may be facing with your business.

Denmark Community Resource Centre

Free Legal Advice via Video/Teleconference with Denmark Legal

Currently the future holds immense uncertainty and for many of us our livelihoods face an imminent threat. It is important that we face this threat together, with generosity, and find a way to keep our businesses running, our staff paid and our community operational, ready for the recovery when it comes.

As our contribution to this, Denmark Legal is prepared to provide a free 15-minute consultation by video or teleconference in relation to issues that affect your business arising from the pandemic and collapse in business conditions. This could relate to contractual matters, force majeure events, employment law (including when and how you can stand down employees under the Fair Work Act), credit contracts, managing debtors, OHS liability in difficult times and many others.

If you need our services that go beyond an initial consultation we are prepared to look at setting our rates based on your capacity to pay. Like all businesses we are simply looking for a way to survive the next period and some turnover is definitely going to be better than none. We are prepared to be flexible so please just ask.

Rural West – Providing Essential Financial Counselling in Regional WA

The Rural Financial Counselling Service of WA is now branded under Rural West. This name change is part of their continued commitment to those in rural WA who are in need of financial support. The same professional and helpful service is now available to even more people in rural and regional WA. In addition to supporting farmers, foresters and professional fishers Rural West will now also be providing financial counselling services to small businesses, not-for-profits, community clubs and other groups that are part of the fabric of regional WA. To find out more read here.

Even More Support for Local Businesses!

The SBDC (Small Business Development Corporation), CCIWA and the Federal Government are continually releasing valuable information for small businesses and employer obligations, and CCIWA have developed a dedicated COVID-19 portal for all businesses. GSCORE (Great Southern Centre for Outdoor Recreation Excellence) have fantastic resources for tourism related businesses and recreation users.

Keep up to date

We encourage you to check in with the following sites regularly and follow their social media pages to ensure you receive the most accurate and up to date public health information and advice. Many of these sites have posters and resources you can download to share directly.

The Premier, theHon Mark McGowan MLAis also releasing detailed daily updates on his Facebook page which is well worth following and sharing – giving correct information on the current COVID-19 status for Western Australia.

There have recently been some changes to workplace laws to support employees and employers during the coronavirus pandemic.

JobKeeper scheme

The Fair Work Act has been amended to support the implementation and operation of the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme (JobKeeper scheme) in Australian workplaces. These changes are temporary and will end on 28 September 2020.

The JobKeeper scheme helps employers significantly affected by coronavirus to keep paying their employees, by providing a subsidy administered by the Australian Tax Office. The changes also give eligible employers the ability to give certain directions to and make agreements with their eligible employees to help manage their business.